Electrical-heat drying device



Dec. 14 1926.

C. O. MORGAN ELECTRICAL HEAT DRYING DEVICE Filed NOV. 17, 1925 8 w e w J Patented 14, 1926.

UNITED STATES, PATENT or FICE. I

CLIFTON ORICE MORGAN, 0F YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO.

ELECTRICAL-HEAT DRYING DEVICE.

Application filed November 17, 1925. Serial No. 69,646.

This invention relates to hair dressing devices, and more specifically, to a device for pressing hair on a persons head; also to a method of dressing hair.

One object of the invention is to provide a very convenient and effective device for accomplishing the finishing step of the hair dressing method whereby comparatively curly and rough hair can be made comparatively straight and smooth and caused to remain substantially in whatever arrangement it is fixed while the finishing steps of the method are beingcarried out.

Other objects and important features will be pointed out or implied in the following details of the method and structure constituting the invention.

In carrying out or performing the method, the hair is first moistened with oil, grease, water or other liquid, or with a combination of these moistening agencies, and

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while thus moist, the hair is combed or brushed or otherwise made comparatively straight and arranged in the desired relation on the head. A cloth is then spread smoothly over the hair, and secured in position by any appropriate means, and then the heated drying device is pressed upon and slid over the cloth, while the hair is still moist, and the sliding movement is continued over all parts of the hair which it is desired to make smooth and comparatively straight, and then when the heat of the device has made the hair comparatively dry, the cloth is removed, and the hair remains substantially in the previously arranged re lation, and relatively smooth and straight.

Referring now to the drawings Which disclose the mechanical features of the invention, a side view of the complete heating and dr ing device is shown in Figure 1.

Eig. 2 is a central longitudinal vertical sectional view.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view in the plane indicated by line 33 of Fig. 2,

viewed in the direction of the arrows which Fig. 4 is an end elevation of the device. Referring to these drawings in detail, in

which similar reference characters corre-- spondjto similar parts 1n the several views, it will be seen that the device comprises a hollow body including upper and lower plates between which is located a means for generating heat for heating the lower plate of this hollow body. More specifically, the

said hollow body includes a hollow member 3 which may be of any appropriate kind of metals or alloy and includes a horizontal plate on which is seated a plate 7 of wood or lnsulating material. The plate 7 and the upper plate of the member 3 are provided with openings through which screws 5 extend for securing these plates to one "another, washers 6 preferably being between the plate 7 and heads of the screws 5.

A strap 2 has its opposite ends secured on opposite sides of the member 3 by means of apertured. plates 1 and screws 4, these plates and screws serving as means to clamp the ends of the strap 2 against the sides of the member 3.

A heat insulating and these are confined between a depending flange 3 (of the member 3) and an upstand-' relatively large area of the convex surface of a persons head. Screws 4 extend through the depending flange 3 and engage with the upwardly extending flange 25 for securing the member 24 in place. The member 3 is provided with a hollow projection 3", and with an aperture in registration with corresponding apertures through the members 10, 11, and 25, and through these registering apertures extend insulating members 19 having electric conducting pins 20 extending therethrough into the interior of the hollow body and provided with nuts 23 between which are clamped the ends of a resistance or heating coil 15 in such relation that one end of this heating coil terminates at one pin 20, and the other end terminates at the other pin 20. These pins 20 constitute means for connecting the heating coil to a source of electric energy, whereby the heating coil may be caused to generate heat within the hollow body, so as to heat the smoothing and pressing plate 24.

Each pin 20 is provided with a diametral enlargement at its middle part, and-against the outer surface of these 'diametra-l enlargements, two insulating collars 21 are seated. A plate 22 is provided with apertures through which relatively small'outer ends of the members 21 extend, this plate 22 being held in place by means of screws 40,

strip 11 has a cover 10,

and being provided with outwardly extending pal-ts 22 which serve to hold the electrical connections 20 in engagement with the electric current supplying means (not shown).

Within the hollow between the plate 24 and the horizontal plate of the member 3, an insulating member 14, preferably of por-' celain, is confined between insulating plates or sheets 13 and 16, the latter preferably being mica, and between this latter plate and the plate 24 is a plate 17 of metal, preferably steel. A plate 12 of insulating material extends over the p ate 13 and over the upper edge of the insulating member 11. A screw 18 extends through the members 171G1 l1312, is screwed into the upper plate of the member 3, extends into the member 7 and secures these members in fixed relation to one another.

In using this device, it is preferable to remove it from the electric current supply-- ing means when it has become sufficiently heated for drying the hair of a persons head, and before it becomes 'sufiiciently heated to scorch the hair. The hand of the user is then inserted through the bail or under the strap 2, while thefingers and a part of the palm rest on the heat insulating plate 7, and by this means, the device is held in convenient relation for sliding the concave surface of the plate 24 over the hair being treated.

I have no intention of limiting the patent protection. on this invention, to the exact details of construction, arrangementand.

materials here specified, but changes may be made within the-scope of the inventive ideas as claimed in the following:

lVhat I claim'is:

1. In a device for smoothing and drying hair on a persons head, a hollow body including an upper heat-insulating plate and a lowerheat-conducting plate, and heating means within the hollow body, the lower side of the heat-conducting plate being smooth and concaved and thereby adapted to be in contact witha relatively large area of a persons head while being slid thereover, substantially as specified.

2. In a device for smoothing and drying hair on a persons head, the combination of a hollow casting having a projection on one end 1 including a substantially horizontal plate and a depending peripheral flange, a second hollow body including a substantially horizontal plate and an upwardly extendin peripheral flange, heat-insulating materia between the said depending flange and up- -wardly extending flange, means securing these flanges and heat insulating material to one another to form a heating chamber, and electrical resistance wire coil in the heating chamber for generating heat for heating'said second hollow body, said second hollow body being of copper and having a smooth concaved lower surface adapted to be slid over a persons head and to contact with a relatively large area of the head or with a cloth on the head, substantially as specified.

3. In a1 device for smoothing and drying hair on a persons head, the combination of a hollow body including a substantially horizontal plate and 51 depending peripheral flange, a second hollow body including. a subrtantially horizontal plate and an upwardly extending peripheral flange, heatinsulating material between the said depending flange and upwardly extending flange, means securing these flanges and heat insulating material to one another to form a heating chamber, and means in the heating chamber for generating heat for heating said second hollow body, said second hollow bodv being of heat-conducting material and having a smooth concaved lower surface adapted to be slid over a persons head and to contact with a relatively large area of the head or with a cloth on the head, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof, I hereonto aflix my signature.

CLIFTON ORICE MORGAN. 

